Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heads with wiglike hair are frequent in various eastern arts and surely served as a model , but the Greek geometry is entirely absent from them . |
| 2 | Of the non-QTS qualifications , the best known are those developed by the Royal Society of Arts and now administered by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate . |
| 3 | World Bank Development Reports classify countries according to Gross National Product ( GNP ) per capita , into low-income , middle-income , industrial market economies , high-income oil exporters and centrally planned economies . |
| 4 | He was , we were told , a butcher from Thaxted who joined a gang of baddies and eventually landed up in York jail , where he was hanged for horse stealing . |
| 5 | Her backwardly turned ears and slightly lifted tail show that she is interested in mating , even though she may not be ready yet . |
| 6 | The wire had cut so deeply , it had ripped off one of its legs and badly damaged another . |
| 7 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 8 | Suddenly , from the top of the bank , Buckthorn flung himself headlong into the scuffle , knocked one of the guards flying with a kick from his back legs and then closed with the other . |
| 9 | A MAN told the High Court sitting in Glasgow yesterday of an ordeal at an Argyll quarry during which he had been repeatedly beaten , burnt with a cigarette , had a car driven over his legs and almost hanged . |
| 10 | Incidentally , would residents please ensure that the covers and properly replaced — otherwise wind and rain can play havoc with contents . |
| 11 | Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training : |
| 12 | In some respects it could be argued that diminishing populations need not necessarily be unwelcome in the cities : renewal can take place at lower densities and much needed environmental improvements can take place . |
| 13 | Cold , wet and tired , we pitched the tents , and fervently hoped that Stephen 's mother would have reported us missing , as she knew that we were usually good timekeepers and normally arrived when we said we would . |
| 14 | , John ( 1624–1701 ) , republican administrator and colonial governor , was the son of John Blackwell , a Puritan-inclined London businessman , who at one time supplied the royal household with groceries and latterly settled in Mortlake in Surrey , and his wife , who came from the Smithesby family , royal household servants . |
| 15 | Plenty of stowage for groceries and effectively fiddled worktop areas in the neat galley |
| 16 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 17 | Like a human body , the body of your essay is made up of parts : in this case paragraphs and perhaps numbered or titled sections and subsections . |
| 18 | Er the problem with the job is it 's very tight inside there so we 've had to use cranes and basically poured concrete er ours is being done by a separate sub-contractor . |
| 19 | She immediately recognized Angel 's brothers and even overheard some of their conversation . |
| 20 | His detailed and systematic accumulation of electoral information provided him with an unsurpassed knowledge of constituencies and candidates and greatly contributed to the efficient Conservative organization which triumphed in 1841 . |
| 21 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 22 | Keith Mills and Mike Timothy took to the water , made waves and generally splashed out for charity when they took part in the BT Swimathon in March . |
| 23 | The houses were subdivided by the Jews and then subdivided again by the Bengalis . |
| 24 | Rossendale closed his eyes and silently cursed . |
| 25 | A second type of culture is a ‘ process ’ culture , found in insurance , public utilities and heavily regulated firms . |
| 26 | Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son . |
| 27 | You will pass a wealth of museums , castles and well preserved medieval towns . |
| 28 | Our drivers and recently notched up 25 years service apiece . |
| 29 | Three times last week cars were stolen by reckless drivers and then set on fire . |
| 30 | As no party emblems were allowed , mostly illiterate rural campesinos ( peasants ) and urban slum dwellers in particular were unable to distinguish between the parties and most failed to vote . |